{"id":1556,"date":"2016-12-30T12:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T06:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2023-08-10T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T08:23:06","slug":"justification-fair-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/justification-fair-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Justification and Fair Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Defamation is categorised as felonious tort meaning thereby it is civil wrong as well as crime . One can take both the two actions at a time. Justification and fair or bonafide comment are both good defences against an action of defamation . But there is difference in between justification and fair or bonafide comment .<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difference may be shown in the following tabular form .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><thead><tr><th><\/th><th><strong>Justification<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Fair Comment<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>1.<\/td><td>When the defendant takes a plea in an action for defamation that the words published are true , it is said justification .<\/td><td>On the other hand , fair comment is a statement of opinion on the matters concerning public interest . Fair comment must not exceed the limits and must not be published maliciously .<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2.<\/td><td>Justification is concerning the facts and substance and not merely based on the belief of defendant.<\/td><td>While fair and bonafide comment being a statement of opinion must be honest . If the facts are misstated , the defence of fair comment is of no avail.\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3.<\/td><td>The defendant escapes the liability of defamation if the words are true whatever improper his motives may be . The defendant relies upon the truth of his assertion denying a claim of reputation which the plaintiff does not or ought not to possess.<\/td><td>On the other hand , fair comment is used as a defence , if commented on public interest . Legitimate criticism is not a tort .<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defamation is categorised as felonious tort meaning thereby it is civil wrong as well as crime . One can take both the two actions at a time. Justification and fair or bonafide comment are both good defences against an action of defamation . But there is difference in between justification and fair or bonafide comment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[86,85,89,87],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-torts","tag-ccs-university","tag-ccsu","tag-law-torts","tag-meerut-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8644,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/8644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}